On Fri, 24 May 2013, Tim Josling <tim.josling@gmail.com> wrote:
If they aren't all Randians who want the poor to live in squalor then why does the blurb for the book you cite suggest that the US government have no provision for social security?
Firstly please don't edit text that you quote. I've edited it back to what I originally wrote.
I thought I had suggesting reading the book rather than just the blurb.
You can suggest that I waste some money and a lot of time reading a book, but it's not going to happen.
To give you a flavour, the argument re welfare payments is that government welfare programs have many pernicious effects, and that community based cooperative solutions, while not perfect, are better overall.
Please cite some examples of "community based cooperative solutions" that have worked in practice. Really this is like a lot of other libertarian ideas like raising government revenue by cutting taxes, people just make stuff up to support things that seem good for them personally. Libertarians have a history of being wrong at everything which can be assessed objectively.
I am not suggesting reading this because you are likely to agree with all of it but because it is quite eye-opening. As were Mein Kampf, Das Capital, and Poltics (Aristotle) in different ways.
I think I can survive without reading Mein Kampf. I'd read Das Kapital if I had more spare time.
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